
Welcome to SawSharp
Your source for handsaw sharpening & restoration, online reference tools, and training seminars.
I’m Mark Harrell, founder of Bad Axe Tool Works. Through this website, you may sign up for one of my weekend or five-day intensive sharpening seminars, where I will personally help you put into practice everything I know from my past fifteen years spent as a saw doc, while producing and building the entire lineup of Bad Axe saws. There's a bit more about who I am just a little further below.
Here you will find everything you need to take control of your nest of saws:
- Weeklong or weekend intensive sharpening seminars
- In-house restoration sharpening or restoration services
- Exhaustive reference for a more DIY approach
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Once a quarter, I gather together up to a half-dozen woodworkers for an intensive two-day saw tune-up and sharpening seminar hosted at our shop in Superior, Wisconsin. For an additional charge at 15% off, you will even go home with your own Bad Axe saw that I've helped you build to spec.
Prefer something more intensive? I also offer quarterly week-long seminars for those of you who choose to go the extra mile. Here, you get to build two Bad Axe saws under my oversight and inclusive with the tuition that you'll take home with you.
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Who is this guy?
Bona Fides
I'm Mark Harrell, retired Army guy, founder of Bad Axe Tool Works, and owner of SawSharp—your resource for handsaw sharpening, restoration, and training.
Throughout the 14 years I owned and operated Bad Axe, I developed basic weekend and advanced 5-day saw sharpening seminars, to teach others how to take ownership of their saw arsenal, and keep them well-maintained and razor sharp. I write extensively on saw maintenance, design, utility and sharpening, and for the past decade have strived to impart my methods and techniques, as well as teaching at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking and other venues.
Having recently passed on Bad Axe ownership to my former employees, I now work independently to restore vintage saws and conduct the SawSharp line of weekend and five-day advanced saw sharpening seminars. I am also completing work on my book, The Continuum of a Toothline: How To Select, Use, Sharpen and Maintain Traditional Handsaws.
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Published articles and a book on the way.
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